Engineering applications of polymers and composite Books

Approaches to the synthesis of supergallery pillared clays. Ga, GaA1 and A1 polyoxacations and pillared clays. Optimization of the pillaring of a saponite. Preparation and properties of pillared synthetic boron saponite. Surface and cracking...

3 In 1992 the annual world production of plastics reached 102 x 1()6m at a value of 3 over US$300 billion, while that of steel was 50 x1()6m ata value ofUS$l25 billion (Table 1. 1). Furthermore, from 1980 to 1990, plastics...

During the last two decades, the production of polymers and plastics has been increasing rapidly. In spite of developing new polymers and polymeric materials, only 40~60 are used commercially on a large scale. It has been...

I. Additives Which Modify Physical Properties.- 1 Plasticizers.- 1.1 Thermodynamic Basis of Macromolecular Mixtures.- 1.1.1 Solubility of Polymers in Solvents.- 1.1.2 Flory-Huggins Interaction Parameter.- 1.1.3 Solubility Parameter.- 1.1.4 Phase...

Because of the many important new developments in other branches of science, some scientists fail to recognize that the volume of polyolefins produced annually is greater than that of all metals. Hence, the American Chemical...

During the past two decades Membrane Science and Technology has made tremendous progress and has changed from a simple laboratory tool to large scale processes with numerous applications in Medicine and Industry. In this volume...

Examination of the early literature attests to the fact that the study of copolymerization was initiated when polymer science was in its infancy. It has continued to grow to a subject of major importance and has been a source...

Raw materials. Hair-care products. Skin-care products. Colour cosmetics. Baby care. Ethnic products. Dental products. Perfumery. Personal hygiene products. Quality, safety and legislation. References. Appendices. Index.

1 Optical applications of organic photochromic polymer systems.- 1.1 Introduction.- 1.2 Potential for erasable optical storage in photochromic polymer systems.- 1.3 Photochromic imaging in ordered systems or in systems exploiting ordering effects.- 1.4...

1 Nature of Surfactants.- 1.1 Introduction to surfactants.- 1.2 Natural surfactants.- 1.3 Synthetic surfactants.- 1.4 Types of surfactant.- 1.4.1 Hydrophilic groups.- 1.4.2 Hydrophobic groups.- 1.5 Surface activity.- 1.5.1 Self-association.- 1.5.2 The...

At the beginning of the twentieth century, engineers and technologists would have recognized the importance of adhesion in two main aspects: First, in the display of friction between surfaces - at the time a topic of growing...

This book summarizes the state ofthe art research presented at the Fourth International Conference on Frontiers of Polymersand Advanced Materialsheld in Cairo, Egypt in January 4-9, 1997. This conference follows the successful...

We both found ourselves working on water-soluble polymers for oil recovery in the early 1980' s. Our previ ous backgrounds i nvo 1 ved the synthesi sand characteri zati on of hydrocarbon polymers for everythi ng from elastomers...